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Metrics and Tools for Construction Productivity Project

Ongoing
What is the problem? Although the construction industry is a major sector of the U.S. economy, it has experienced a perceived period of decline in productivity[1]. Due to the critical lack of measurement methods, however, the magnitude of the productivity problem in the construction industry is
The Metrics & Tools project assesses whole building sustainability for buildings located in 228 U.S. cities.

Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy transparent, open source standards-based data and tools that quantify the life-cycle cost and sustainability performance of building technologies and systems by 2027 through parallel activities focused on developing, releasing, and expanding capabilities and adoption